By Jim ZacharyÂ
Every year or two, state lawmakers introduce bills that threaten the publicâs right to know.
Why would anyone not want to require important public information to be published in the newspaper? Few people are naive enough to think that government officials will go beyond what they are required to do when it comes to providing public notices.
In the past, lawmakers in Georgia and across the country have introduced measures that would completely eliminate public notice requirements. Some of those measures would bury required pubic notices on government websites, where ordinary people would never see them.